This Report updates ASEAN’s 2012 Regional Capacity Building Roadmap (ARCBR), in accordance with Initiative 2.1 of the ASEAN Competition Action Plan 2025 (ACAP), and is prepared with support from the Competition Law Implementation Programme (CLIP) Phase II of the AANZFTA Economic Cooperation...

This article examines the likely role of competition in the regulatory analysis of bank mergers in China. Despite financial reforms, the banking sector remains subject to a complex web of financial regulation, with industrial policy favouring stability to facilitate national economic...

The Centre for International Finance and Regulation and UNSW Australia jointly funded this research under CIFR Project T20. The Centre for International Finance and Regulation is funded by the Commonwealth and NSW Governments and is supported by other Consortium members. The research question...

This article is about the reach of antitrust laws to proscribe or override anticompetitive acts and measures of the states. While it was once the case that antitrust (or competition) laws were reserved for private restraints, a more modern view of the state and the market recognizes the integral...

Both before and after the Australian Federal election in 2016 there were calls for a Royal Commission into banking in Australia, targeting the big four banks. Although the original focus for the proposal was driven by poor wealth management advice, the scope of the call was modified in light of...